Chris Preimesberger

Major macro, technology and regulatory trends have created a new normal in every industry: If your IT infrastructure isn’t digital-ready, your business can’t compete. As enterprise technology continues to become increasingly seamless, it’s imperative that businesses continue to bring IT delivery, applications and data processing closer to the users—at the digital edge.  For the record: […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Data memory device and processor maker Micron Technology issued a lot of news Oct. 24, making five major announcements at its international Insight 2019 conference here at Pier 27 on the waterfront. The news included the following: Micron’s first commercial product built on the 3D XPoint nonvolatile memory technology, originally developed in cooperation with […]

We keep hearing that 5G is coming … coming … and coming. Up to recently, this has mostly been about hype and anticipation only. Well, Samsung Electronics on Oct. 22 actually made a major move toward making 5G wireless a daily reality for consumers and businesses. The huge electronics maker unveiled at Mobile World Congress […]

Networking equipment and software maker Aruba on Oct. 22 launched a new lineup of network switches designed to address specific new-generation requirements of business campuses, branch offices, edge nodes and devices, and data centers.   The Aruba CX Switching Portfolio now includes the Aruba CX 6300 Series fixed configuration and CX 6400 Series modular access, […]

Today: SIOS Technology (high availability and disaster recovering clustering software) Company description: SIOS Technology provides IT resilience for critical applications like SAP and databases such as SQL Server and Oracle SAP in the cloud, hybrid cloud or data center. Using SIOS high availability clustering software, applications automatically recover from infrastructure and application failures in a […]

Download our free SIEM Vendor Report based on nearly 300 real user experiences with the top SIEM products in the marketplace. It’s becoming a trend that companies that started out producing SIEM solutions are now branching out to provide full data management platforms. This is indeed the case with both Splunk and SolarWinds. SIEM, the […]

HP’s newest ZBook laptop, which came out this summer, and I are now old friends. We’ve been working together at home, at the office and on the road now for more than two months. We’ve come to know each other pretty well during that time span, and, like getting to know a real person, we […]

The concept of data storage warehouses is pretty old-school, going back to 1951 for physical document/film storage facilities (Iron Mountain and IBM), then to the 1990s for on-premises-only IT warehouse solutions. A lot has changed since Amazon launched the S3 cloud storage service in late 2006 and its Glacier online cold storage and backup service […]

A recent McKinsey survey found that companies are aggressively pursuing digital transformation, but success still remains elusive. Larger companies are having an especially tough time: At organizations with fewer than 100 employees, respondents are 2.7 times more likely to report a successful digital transformation than are those from organizations with more than 50,000 employees. So […]

On Wednesday,  Oct. 9, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 80th #eWEEKChat, the first since last May (we took a summer hiatus for the first time since this series debuted in January 2013). The topic will be “Edge Computing: IT’s Newest Greenfield.” It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, […]

Nearly every large organization today wants to take advantage of big data analytics to inform decisions and gain a competitive edge. For example, the 2019 NewVantage Big Data and AI Executive Survey Report found that nearly 92% of the Fortune 500 executives they surveyed are increasing their investments in big data and AI, and 55% […]

Utilization of containers in production environments, according to a Portworx industry report, have more than doubled in the past year as the ecosystem around the major orchestration platforms matures. This maps to what eWEEK is seeing in the industry overall. At the same time, the dominance of Kubernetes as the de facto choice for container […]